Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

2009-05-25 Thread José Matos
On Sunday 24 May 2009 17:44:16 Graham Smith wrote: > Thanks, > > As you say an interesting combination, but if I wasn't using R, I would > be using very expensive commercial alternatives, which I still have > licenses for , but no longer upgrade. I use mostly gnuplot (for 3d), matplotlib and R. So

Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Neumann
Guenter Milde writes: > Do you scale the figure in question or set a fixed size? Re-sizing pixel > images can lead to bad surprises. yes, I just tried with 100%: No Difference. > EPS and PDF can both "include" JPEG and PNG images -- in newer versions. > Some convertors, however, will default

Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Neumann
> Well, seems like the time to apologize. It was my point of view and I > was wrong. Next time, I try to be more constructive... Accepted;-) Next time I have a problem, I will post the link to the old thread about the strange fact that the newer latex takes more than twice the time immediately.

Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf

2009-05-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-05-25, Robert Neumann wrote: > Guenter Milde writes: > I found a solution which is acceptable for me: I export it from > CorelDraw as a grayscale-Gif. This works fairly well, at least I can > life with that... Regards Robert Fine. Generally, JPEG is not suited for drawings or any images

Re: LyX - cross platform core toolkit for scientific and technical writing?

2009-05-25 Thread Graham Smith
José Matos wrote: I use mostly gnuplot (for 3d), matplotlib and R. Sometimes I call both gnuplot and R from python (rpy for the r <-> python part). It does look like Python offers a rather useful thing to learn. Graham

Re: coloured background in header and margin

2009-05-25 Thread Helge Hafting
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Christiaan Pauw schrieb: Is it possible to use background colours in a header, footer and margin (or part of a each) only. I want to create a layout for a report that looks something like this:... Coloring the header and footer should be possible, but coloring the margin no

Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?

2009-05-25 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Is it my imagination, or do things go MUCH better when graphics included in a LyX diagram are PDFs? That's what I've found. I've found them infinitely and continuously scalable, and if I create the PDF with "embed fonts", I think they work anywhere. I'm so old I re

memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6

2009-05-25 Thread Oscar Lopez
Dear Lyxers I am trying to use a lyx template which uses the memoir book class that worked pretty well with lyx-1.5.4 but now with lyx-1.6.2 refuses to compile because the lyx error (in fact latex error) says: \pagestyle{myMainheading} I've run across a `}' that doesn't seem to match anything.

Navigation menu -> list of tables includes comment tables

2009-05-25 Thread Hauser Helmut
Hello, I use Lyx 1.5.2 on Fedora. I have noted that in the Navigation menu -> list of tables Lyx lists also tables which are in the "note" (commentary) environment and therefore are not seen in the LaTeX output. For the counts in Lyx (e.g. Table 3) it counts these tables too. The same is right

RE: Navigation menu -> list of tables includes comment tables

2009-05-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I use Lyx 1.5.2 on Fedora. I have noted that in the >Navigation menu -> list of tables Lyx lists also tables >which are in the "note" (commentary) environment and >therefore are not seen in the LaTeX output. For the >counts in Lyx (e.g. Table 3) it counts these tables >too. The same is right for

Lyx Print-out?

2009-05-25 Thread Bruhtesfa Ebrahim
Hey all, I am using lyx to write my thesis. Everything is ok except one problem. When I see the pdf output, the width of the text on the page is too narrow. The PDF text covers only about 50% of the width of the page. Because of this, my thesis is elongated to many pages than it will actually be.

RE: Lyx Print-out?

2009-05-25 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>Hey all, > >I am using lyx to write my thesis. Everything is ok except >one problem. > >When I see the pdf output, the width of the text on the >page is too narrow. The PDF text covers only about 50% of >the width of the page. Because of this, my thesis is >elongated to many pages than it will ac

Re: coloured background in header and margin

2009-05-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Christiaan Pauw wrote: Is it possible to use background colours in a header, footer and margin (or part of a each) only. I want to create a layout for a report that looks something like this: I don't know about odd v. even pages, but the beamer presentation package includes styles that u

Re: Lyx Print-out?

2009-05-25 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi, Do like Vincent said To get MS-Word margins Go to Document > settings > page margins and use Top/bottom 2.54 right/left margins 3.17. Another options is to plug into the preamble \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{verbose,letterpaper,tmargin=2.54cm,bmargin=2.54cm,lmargin=3.17cm,rmargin=3.17cm

XFig and LyX (Was: Re: Is PDF the best graphic format for LyX?)

2009-05-25 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Dear all, I have just (within the last week or so, using the 2.0.0 svn development code, which I've kept up with and compiled) started having problems using XFig figures within LyX. Previously (and the mechanism is still there), to insert an XFig figure, I'd use the "external material" in

Output resolution of PDF

2009-05-25 Thread Micha Feigin
I'm trying to include equations created in lyx/latex inside a scribus poster (The scribus plugin doesn't seem to do what I want). The output resolution is too low though (seems to be 72dpi) and the fonts look really bad. Is there a way to get latex to output the document at a higher resolution?

Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6

2009-05-25 Thread Oscar Lopez
Dear all I have been able to reproduce the problem. Attached there is a minimal lyx file together with a minimal preamble (foo.tex) which reproduces the problem. * if the lyx preamble consists of \input{foo.tex} it does not work and the aforementioned error appears. If I enclose \input{foo.t

Re: Output resolution of PDF

2009-05-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-05-25, Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to include equations created in lyx/latex inside a scribus > poster (The scribus plugin doesn't seem to do what I want). The output > resolution is too low though (seems to be 72dpi) and the fonts look > really bad. Is there a way to get latex to out

Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6

2009-05-25 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Oscar Lopez wrote: > * if the lyx preamble consists of \input{foo.tex} it does not work and > the aforementioned error appears. If I enclose \input{foo.tex} between > \makeatletter and \makeatother then it works, which really puzzles me. > > *if the content of the preamble foo.tex is directly inclu

Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6

2009-05-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 25 May 2009 10:40:43 am Oscar Lopez wrote: > Dear all > > I have been able to reproduce the problem. Attached there is a minimal > lyx file together with a minimal preamble (foo.tex) which reproduces the > problem. > > * if the lyx preamble consists of \input{foo.tex} it does not work and

Underscore in Bibliography

2009-05-25 Thread Hesham Kamel
Hi, Please, I have many references with underscore in the url, which generates an error when creating the pdf view. I'd appreciate your suggestions. Thank you -- Hesham

Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug

2009-05-25 Thread Marcelo Reis
Guys, believe me I did a lot of research regarding this, but until now I was not able to make things works the way I want. I'm developing (at least trying) my thesis, and I can't make things goes the way I want. I need the following style to Bibliography: [Author Name, YEAR] ;. . a exam

An extra space after hyperlinks in PDF

2009-05-25 Thread Dan Phan
I use hyperref to generate clickable links in PDFs file, but I got extra spaces after many, but not all, of my links. That means an end of sentence period or comma may end up in another line, which is very ugly. Is this a Latex or LyX problem? How do I resolve it? Thanks Dan

Re: LFUN to switch focus to outline pane and back

2009-05-25 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hellmut Weber wrote: > Are there lfuns which switch the focus from the text panel to the outline > panel and back. i think its even impossible to get keyboard focus inside outline even if you try to set it by mouse pavel

Re: formatting help needed

2009-05-25 Thread Markus Büchele
Hello Richard, sorry for my long silence - I didn't resolve the issues completely, but I got over an important hurdle. I exported my .lyx-file to a .tex-file. This was the only way, I could get in the "\setlength\parindent{0.7cm}" option. It was quite hard for me because the German umlaut didn

Re: An extra space after hyperlinks in PDF

2009-05-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dan Phan schrieb: I use hyperref to generate clickable links in PDFs file, but I got extra spaces after many, but not all, of my links. Can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe

Re: Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug

2009-05-25 Thread cmiramon
Marcelo Reis wrote: > I tried A LOT of styles, and finally I was able to find one that I > thought that meet my needs.it is the ALIKE2 style. I can't find anything called alike2.bst. Are you using natbib ? > I'm in this problem for weeks and I'm really tired of it, I would > appreciate a LOT if

Re: memoir class lyx-1.5 file does not work with lyx-1.6

2009-05-25 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > LyX does this automatically for you, that's why your document works if the > code is inserted directly to the preamble. In former versions, Lyx blindly > embraced any preamble with this pair. Now, it tries to be smart and only > embraces it if the preamble actually

Re: Bibliography Is really complex , or it is a bug

2009-05-25 Thread Marcelo Reis
cmira...@kde-france.org wrote: Marcelo Reis wrote: I tried A LOT of styles, and finally I was able to find one that I thought that meet my needs.it is the ALIKE2 style. I can't find anything called alike2.bst. Are you using natbib ? /Sorry, the file can be found at: C:\Arqu

Re: Problems with jpg-quality with ps2pdf

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Neumann
> If you use Coreldraw, don't export to jpg you graphic, but directly to eps > type 2 and you will have best quality and no pixelated contours. thats what I did, normaly I do the complete drawing but in this case I had to include a jg. With GIF-Export it works fairly well, thats what I found ou